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Activity: Being Man or Woman

(Relay)
Write:
• TRAIT/ TRAITS
• CHARACTERISTICS
• PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
BASIC GENDER
CONCEPTS
Refers to the
biological and
physiological
characteristics
that define
men and
women
SEX CHARACTERISTICS…
• Women menstruated while men do not
• Women have developed breasts that are
usually capable of lactating while men
have not
• Women can give birth.

CANNOT
BE
CHANGED
• Men can supply sperm.
• Men have testicles while women do not
BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES....

FEMALE MALE

GENITALIA vagina, clitoris penis, scrotum

INTERNAL uterus,
REPRODUCTIVE ovaries, testes
ORGANS fallopian tube,
ovum
CHROMOSOMES XX XY

HORMONES Estrogen Testosterone

Progesterone
Gender refers to the
socially constructed
roles and relationships,
personality traits,
attitudes, behaviors,
values, relative power
and influence that
society ascribes to the
two sexes on a
differential basis.
• Gender varies from culture to
culture and over time.

• Gender can be contested or


challenged, can be
transformed.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
-Who a person is usually attracted to.
CATEGORIES OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Homosexual – A clinical term first used over
century, often used inaccurately, to label people
who are emotionally, physically, and/or sexually
attracted to/or committed to members of the
same gender.

-Lesbian – One of the most common and most


preferred terms for female
homosexual
- Gay – a common and acceptable
term for male homosexuals
CATEGORIES OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Heterosexual – A person who is emotionally and


/or sexually attracted to persons of the opposite
gender.

Bisexual – A person who is attracted to people,


rather than gender and/or sex
SEXUAL IDENTITY

- How a person identifies with their sexual orientation

Trans – People who do not perceive


of, or present, their gender identity in
accordance with their first assigned
legal sex.

Transgender – Includes people who


live, or desire to live, a large part of
their life in the role or dress of the
gender opposite to that associated with
legal sex to which they were first
assigned.
Transvestite – An Individual who adopts the dress, and
sometimes behavior, typical of the opposite gender for a variety
of reasons including emotional and/or sexual pleasure.

Straight acting – A person who goes to great lengths to hide


their same-sex attraction.

Transexualism – A form of human diversity in sexual formation


in which an individual experiences her- or himself to be of the
sex opposite to that indicated by individual’s original sexually
differentiated body.
Intersex – People born with reproductive
organs, genital, and/or sex chromosomes that are
not exclusively male or female.

GLBTI - A commonly used term to encompass


people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender.

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